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4th Annual Colorado Prairie Music Festival
August 8, 2020
2020 Colorado Prairie Music Festival Postponed until August 7, 2021
Hugo, COLO.- July 21, 2020- Colorado Prairie Arts and Music Council (CPAM), the non-profit organization that produces the Colorado Prairie Music Festival, has come to a difficult decision. After months of perseverance, multiple plans and compromise in the name of avoiding the postponement of the 4th year of real country music on the plains of Eastern Colorado, the five-person board has made the decision to postpone their much-anticipated concert on August 8 at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds.
The 2020 show, hosted at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds on the last night of the Lincoln County Fair, was slated to bring country music super-star, Aaron Watson. Initially, the team created plans enacting COVID-19 precautions, allotting for 28 feet per attendee, an extra stage, several beer and food vendor locations for enhanced ability to reduce line sizes, and a rigorous sanitation schedule. However, amid an increasingly divided public, increasing virus case counts and pressure at the state level to mandate mask-wearing and social distancing with potential implications for local businesses and governmental entities the CPAM team decided it was in the best interest of its supporters that the concert at its current scope be rescheduled for next summer.
Chris Huelskamp, CPAM Chair said “Our board put in countless hours of work and fought passionately for this event over the past few months, we realize that people need something to look forward to, and we wanted our concert to be that event. However, we are a fairly new organization and had to consider factors like fiduciary responsibility and most importantly the health of our county residents. Ultimately the deciding factor was the desire to put on the best event possible where everyone could enjoy live music and enjoy themselves without repercussions; living up to the standard we have created for the Colorado Prairie Music Festival over the past four years, our fans and Aaron Watson fans deserve the best show we can put on and we just can’t do it right this year.”
The good news is that Aaron Watson has already been booked for next year and will be rocking the open-air livestock barn at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Hugo, CO on Saturday, August 7, 2021.
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Colorado Prairie Music Festival is a program of the Colorado Prairie Arts and Music Council, a nonprofit organization in Lincoln County that has a mission of promoting and enhancing the arts in rural communities in Lincoln County and eastern Colorado. Follow the festival on Facebook and Instagram.
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